Random Reviews

The label Review has always been behind in posts count, not because I am short of topics to review but because I’ve watched too much movies and read too many books lately to write a review for each. A quick review on everything that has kept me occupied this week apart from watching the entire Star Wars series and a season of FRIENDS…

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Amazingly dullish. Not the king of box office, but boredom. The heroine has a poke marked unattractive face. So, waiting for the odd you-know-what scene is worthless. Save 2 hours.

Varanam Aayiram

You’ll love the movie
IF you think a student with two arrears can easily start a company and become rich in a few years.
IF you think a normal person can save a child kidnapped by Delhis most feared don.
IF you think a normal parent will send his son to USA just to usharpannify a girl.
IF you think a normal person can rise upto the rank of a major in the army by a two minute music segment. ( I pardon Surya Vamsam)
IF you are one of the lot, who calls everything cute from a movie to an ant.
IF you are searching for a movie to go with your gf/bf and wanna make sure you don’t get involved with the movie even for a second!
IF all friends in your gang say the movie is great and you can’t disagree with them!

The director never told us what the ‘Daddy’ Surya did to make a living. All he did was to smoke, drink and read a book right through the movie!

Midnights Children
Imagine you need to buy a book. You walk into a library with stacks full of MC and find that it sells only Midnights Children and nothing else. If you are not so stubborn to buy a book, happily walk out of the library. The greatest literary work all right, but not a fascinating read. I finally stopped at page 299 after having extended my wits end several times.

Not a Penny More Not a penny less – An international fraud deceives four different people. The affected quadruple group decide to play the villains own game and get back their money ( till the last penny) from the fraud by deceit.

Honor Among Thieves Saddam Hussein steals the Declaration of Independence of USA by a cleverly devised plan in order to bring disgrace to USA and the CIA attempts to save the country’s pride. Jeffrey Archer is not a great literary writer but definitely one of the finest storytellers of all time. Both these books are page turners, with a great plot and narration.

Engi(s)neering Chemistry

Title - Engineering Chemistry
Publishers - Dhanpat Rai
Authors - Jain and jain

In a nutshell - Aimed at providing the students an easy and lucid method for learning... Just aimed...



The features of d book as written in the back of the book

11 NEW Chapters
Err... The book totally has 12 , which means the previous edition had only one chapter? Or it should've been the book's title!
17th edition but still it manages to boast 2 mistakes minimum every page, a quality thats unique to Jain n Jain
Cost - Rs.150 and interestingly lower than books from other authors who've plagiarized stuff from Jain's.

The content of the book is presented in a lucid way but its more than just comprehensive. A book out of question for eleventh-hour preparation as it has too many topics, each comprising of too many lines that is agonisingly arduous to study.

Voices from the Fourth Estate

The Times of Congo - Trudosi'au ls*do po^ipd mcaksjo s"dkppaa #re qwd@opp^zzlwe!!

The Muslim - A captivating book and read by nerds 2-3 times over, so somethings good about it.

Washington Roast - Stress, lower jaw pain because of excessive yawning makes the author on top of the WANTED LIST and highly recommended by doctors who can make a living out of this book...

The Indian Bullock Cart - An enticing, gripping book, a must read, favourite of all age-groups - probably the best of its kind to come out in ages. Very generous, comes at a low price and also has given us 4k more than the decided bribe for this comment...

Dabha Chronicle - 364 pages at Rs.80 (2nd hand), vadai owners club n parotta parcel services club all praises for the book.

Am just kidding.I mustered up 84 in chemistry. Both the Jains - I love ya swines!

Kingly King !

While channelhopping on TV, my eyes widened at the sight of Superstar dancing for a song from a movie, which used to be one of my childhood favourites.
A 1980s Rajnikanth starrer - Rajadhi Raja.
Nadhiya,Radha,Janakaraj,Radharavi and Anandraj were the other common names
in the movie.

Story in a nutshell - Rajni taking revenge on radharavi for the death of his dad
and friend by making his other lookalike act in his place.

Nothing was believable in the movie, right from two look-alike rajnis but different parentage to how they both curiously have the same voice and hairstyle.

Even the villain, who is supposed to be wicked and smart is not able to recognise Rajni incognito.In cognito as in,he wears orange clothes and sports a white beard and in the climax, he sports the one eyed look.Everything else is intact!
And god knows how the villain and his entourage managed to contact the magician rajni and why they couldnt recognise them.

The other Rajni agrees to act in the other Rajni's place after talking for a minute with him ! Which stupid insane duffer will agree to such a life-risking affair. In the ultimate climax, Raja drives his car straight to the scaffold room inside the prison. Excuse me,but dint prisons in the 80s have something called compound walls and security guards? Or was the movie scripted by JK.Rowling?

And Rajni is a mix of Superman and Spiderman as he enters Nadhiya's home with ease and handles seven ruffians(who in reality can finish off Rajni in seconds) with ease as if they are lifeless things. And the ever noisy Janakaraj lightens up the movie with his loud so-called comedy.

The usual big villain in the end whom Rajni trounces and vanquishes after initially taking blows; five songs promptly propping up every 30 minutes and a fite sequence every 30 mins; the artificial sets which can be easily identified ;songs with colorful sets and apparel.

But, Ilayaraja's pacy songs including the classics - En Kitta Modhathey and Maama Un Ponna Kudu songs hog the limelight.
The highlight of the movie is when Rajni takes on six people (the leader,two coll kids, two bald heads and one semi-bald) after dodging from them for the first minute and then striking back at them(Yup, like the movie Sachein).

Everything about the movie has room for people to criticise but then the one factor that nullifies everything is

SUPERSTAR

which is precisely why I watched the whole movie today for probably the tenth time:D